One take home message we ought to garner from last night's results is that economic libertarianism is not the winning issue everyone seems to think it is. It's telling that the guy whose campaign focused on the economy (granted, he was more or less forced into it by circumstances beyond his control) and responded by trying to preach economic libertarianism to a nation seeing its financial system melt down got his head handed to him, but that explicit social conservatism did much better. Seems like the only conservatives who were even close to being winners last night were the social conservatives, what with the bans on gay marriage in AZ and FL passing, the ban in liberal CA being still too close to call, and an extremely radical ban on abortion in SD losing by only 10%.
*cough,* choke...Just when exactly did McCain preach economic libertarianism? Before or after he supported the bailout?
yes, don’t tell me that social conservatives need to go away after prop 8 passes thanks to Obama voters.
Did someone run on that platform? Was there a party that had practiced such for the last 8 years and ran on it as a theme? Let me know so I can vote form him/them next time.
Truely, I hope you are not making the case that the GOP candidate proposed economic libertarianism. His proposal to the the recession was to “get to the heart of the problem” and have the Federal Government buy up bad mortgages. Not a free markets idea.
Are you out of your stinkin' mind?! If McLame would have followed Ron Paul's lead and voted against the bail-out, as well as stood up to Bush's endorsements of bigger government and bigger spending, McLame would have had something to run on. The biggest problem I had when talking people into voting for McShame instead of Osamabama was that they really weren't all that different from each other; there was no contrast! To blame the libertarians for our loss is like blaming the cops when you got raped after wearing a miniskirt with no panties.